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>I would start by reading A.J. Ayer's "Language, Truth and Logic", or Hans >Reichenbach's "The Rise of ScientificPhilosophy", I don't want to belabor this too much, but I forgot to mention Bertrand Russell's "Logical Atomism"....a fantastic and most intriguing read that illustrates the idea of literally meaninful statements. Russell actually breaks language down into logical atoms and molecules. An atom is something like "x is red", where red is an unanalyzable term the denotes an empirical sense datum that is also unanalyzable....really fasimating stuff! Utlimately, sentences that can legitimatly be considered meaningful propositions are broken down into logical atoms of this sort. So, complex sentences or logical molecules like "This billard ball is red" are anaylzed into an extremly complicated array of atoms, like "There is an x, such that x is round, x is of such and such a size, x is at this specific location,.....etc..and x is red". This is an oversimplication, but similar to what we do in symbolic logic to concert a normal English speaking statement into symbols, so that we can focus on its logical structure and not the content. Hence, we can analyze statements like "Rick Walker looped the sound of a sex toy at the Boise Experimental Music Festival" into an array of logical atoms. However, we cannot analyze "Mozart is good", "Avant-garde is better than pop", etc into logical atoms, because the term "good" fails to denote any real property that render the atom "X is good" meanful. "X is red" and "X is Good" are entirely different. One we can verify, the other is empty. Kris